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• Out-mine the enemy.
• Continue to produce miners as much as possible.
• Spend the money that you mine.
  
  Don't save more than 400 minerals or gas.  Keeping at least 100 in reserve is ok but money isn't doing you any good unless you spend it on units, structures, and upgrades.
  
• Protect your miners as a priority.
  
  Place at least 3 defensive structures around your miners.
  
• Wall in your miners with Structures.
  
  Minimize the route to your base; leave room behind the wall for defensive structures.
  
• Send 1/4 to 1/2 of your miners to a new expansion so that you can maximize mining and miner production at all of your bases.

Note: Always build a miner first thing when the game starts and then send each of the four miners, one at a time, to separate mineral patches; put each one on the next closest patch.

Tip: As you continue producing miners, click on the miner on the closest patch (on his back-swing) and send him to one farther away so each new miner will be as close as possible to an empty patch.  This trick will maximize your mineral intake and save you some time in the Early Game..